As the other said, GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US - your website is very informative, well laid-out and the photos of your site really bring life to your writing. Very well done and welcome to the forums, hope to see you here often.

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My first introduction to bees was with packages of Carniolan species, imported from Australia. I have to say that these are very gentle and lovely bees to keep. I am coming into my 3rd year in beekeeping and I love the Carniolan. I have heard that they have a propensity for swarming, but I have not encountered any problems with this so far. They are always hard at work and never bother much when I work with their hive. On the other hand, I caught a swarm during my first summer of beekeeping and learned alot that summer about cranky bees. They must have had some nasty genes for sure. I kept this swarm through the winter and requeened it with a queen I had raised from my Carniolan colony. Not to say that this young queen was true to her genetics, because I am sure that possibly some drone from a neighbouring farm may have mated with her mother. I presume that then we have a mixed breed queen in this manner. Anyways, the temperament of this swarm changed, much more docile, but still not as sweet as the neighbouring Carniolan colonies. I lost this swarm hive to the varroa destructor mite, such a nasty infliction. There was such bad damage to this hive even before I realized what the signs were, too late, but I am prepped and ready. I have treated my hives with formic acid and will work with the icing sugar next year. I am endeavouring to never have the mite in such great numbers again. It actually decimated several of my colonies over time. Last summer I would see bees crawling around on the ground, some even long ways from their hives, being new to beekeeping, I thought that this was a natural die off, from bees wings fraying from so much work. Hmmm....so many things to learn about our dear girls. Regards, Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

Gustav, I am sorry, but I do not know what you mean when you said about in summer one Carniolan queen from you. Are you going to send me one? I'm sorry, but your statement was confusing. Regards. Cindi.

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

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LET-CA, good to resurrect the post. I may still get a Carniolan queen or two from Slovenia from Gustov, that would be very cool. Best of a beautiful day, great life, may the sun shine and good health. Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

the number is at 3 currently. gustav kind of isn't participating so...it's just me, TBH-fan and you.slowly but surelly we'll take over the forum, beemaster be ware! :-Doh, almost forgot to say, welcome aboard this much more opened forum, MiÅ¡ko

Misko, welcome, it is wonderful to see people from far away places in the world come into our forum. Good, don't worry about your English, it is admirable that you are doing the best that you can with the language stuff, yeah!!!! Good for you, and again welcome, have a wonderful day, great life. Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

misko, your english is fine. some of us have english as our first language and still can't communicate! :-)

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